MONTRÉAL (CP) - After 16 days of Expo '67, officials of
Canada's world fair looked back on their operation today and found it more
successful than anyone expected.

Friday night the top bosses of the big fair met members of
the press corps and Andrew G. Kniewasser, general manager, told them: "We are in
very good shape."

GREATER SUCCESS

"It's clear to everyone that we have a greater success on
our hands than even the most courageous of us thought," he said.

The success was a total of more than 3,600,000 visitors
since the gates opened to the public April 28. So far, 1,000,000 more have come
to the fair than had been predicted.

Now fair officials are ready to scrap the original estimate
of 35,000,000 visits to the fair during its six-month term and are shooting for
60,000,000.

But Expo's success has brought its own problems, including
movement of huge crowds of people, feeding them and providing sanitary
facilities.

Philippe de Gaspe Beaubien, director of operations and in
effect mayor of the $650,000,000 Expo city spread over three main sites in the
St. Lawrence River and covering an area of 1,000 acres, said one of the fair's
main problems is feeding its visitors.

ENLARGE FACILITIES

With the capacity to feed 275,000 a day, Expo now hopes to
enlarge its facilities to feed more than 300,000.

"What we have in mind is a large family restaurant, with
meal prices under $2 and seating 1,000 on St. Helen's Island," Mr. Beaubien
said.

"We are also thinking of having food prepared in Montréal
and bring it to the site where it can warmed up."

By 10 p.m. Friday night, 162,321 had come through the
turnstiles during the day, or a cumulative total since April 27 of
3,736,171.

This means that with a population of 2,500,000 in Greater
Montréal, every Montréaler on average has been to the fair at least
once.

- End of article. Copyright by the Canadian Press, May
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